Improve Safety and Toxicological Assessments: New Chemical Product Development

Chemical companies face many risks when developing new products. But, none is more important than safety. Certain chemicals may pose risks to consumers, but when administered properly, they can still be viable for the market. Understanding the toxicology and regulations behind substances is critical for new products & formulations. But, often times, the information surrounding these is buried and unformatted.

In this webinar, expert toxicology consultant Claudia Cusan will unveil how she mitigates safety risks for her clients. Topics include:

•Challenges for toxicologists and safety professionals in the chemicals industry
•Case studies of how Claudia has overcome these challenges, with emphasis on plastics / safe handling for end consumers
•How Chemtiva, a new solution for the chemical industry, can help chemical companies with safety & toxicology assessments

Anyone in the chemical industry is welcome to attend this webinar, but it is best suited for toxicologists, safety professionals, product stewards, regulatory affairs and R&D product developers.

To learn more about Chemtiva, please visit www.elsevier.com/solutions/chemtiva

Preparing for the world’s future water resource needs is growing increasingly complex. According to the 2020 United Nations World Water Development Report, the use of water has grown 6x in the past 100 years with continual growth expected. Increased demand, plus the effects of global climate change, will stretch water resources to its max.

Aquifers can store water, but the unintended consequences of consumption present a threat to groundwater resources. Overexploitation of groundwater resources is leading to groundwater quality deterioration and depletion, ecosystem degradation, land subsidence and seawater intrusion. Therefore, it is essential to manage groundwater resources in a sustainable way.

In this webinar, you will learn more about how you can leverage information and data from scientific studies on groundwater resources to get an overview of the groundwater quality in your area of interest, which can support the development of sustainable groundwater management strategies.

Sandra Merten, Senior Product Manager of Geofacets, will demonstrate how to:
•Find published maps, tables, plots, and associated article information quickly using Geofacets to get an overview of the published data for the area of interest
•Use maps, tables and associated information from Geofacets in Excel and ArcGIS to analyze the data and gain geospatial insights

The chemical industry is becoming increasingly complex, which means that businesses face many new challenges to remain competitive. Many senior executives agree that digitalization is the key to responding to these market complexities and to ensure future success. However, the industry is behind the curve in adopting new digital technologies.

To help R&D professionals, engineers, scientists, safety professionals and other chemical industry leaders understand digitalization opportunities better, this Digitalization in the Chemicals Industry webinar will explore how to integrate big data, predictive analytics and other digital solutions into chemical businesses:

Discover:
•The basics of how new digital technologies can be deployed
•Ways to develop digital processes throughout your enterprise: R&D, Compliance, Toxicology, EHS, supply chain, and manufacturing
•Insights into using technology to boost workflow efficacy, cross-department collaboration and more
•How to leverage data to make better and clearer decisions

This webinar will help you get started on building a new digital business model for your enterprise:
•Plan the best approach for your business
•Improve strategic decision-making
•Drive innovation
•Anticipate new markets
•Develop new products, services and capabilities
•Stay ahead of trends
•Refine best practices
•Find cost-savings solutions to modern day problems
•Improve safety

Digitization will help drive better informed decision-making throughout your company, from R&D to marketing. By taking a systematic approach to adopting new technologies, you can develop new business and operating models that will generate more successful outcomes and help you stay competitive.

Explosion hazards exist in many industrial processes involving powders and other fine particulate that can form when the dusts become suspended in air.

The degree of hazard is affected by many variables such as particle size, moisture content, concentration of dust in the cloud and ignition-source energy.

The foremost industry guidance for preventing and mitigating these explosions are the NFPA standards:
- NFPA 652: Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust
- NFPA 654 Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids

This webinar will highlight the requirements and guidelines, including recent changes to NFPA 652 that mandate "Dust Hazard Assessment (DHA)" for all facilities, existing and new.

Learning Objectives:
* Understanding the key requirements of the applicable NFPA standards
* Understanding the Dust Hazard Assessment (DHA) requirements and methodology
* Understanding practical risk mitigation/improvements that can be made based on the requirements of NFPA 652.

Speaker:
Ronald Melucci, P.E. is a Technical Manager in the Fire Protection and Risk Services Division of Engineering Planning and management (EPM), Inc.

He is a fire protection engineer with 25 years of consulting experience, has published many technical articles and papers and is a regular speaker on various fire protection and process safety topics.

Since 1980, EPM has been a world leader in nuclear and industrial safety specializing in fire protection, code consulting and chemical process safety.

Data management has become a popular topic for companies invested in natural resource exploration & production. It’s easy to see why. The benefits include operational efficiency improvements, performance improvements, and cost reduction. Organizations that empower their geoscientists with easily categorized and accessible data can get from exploration to production faster, reducing exploration costs and improving production revenues.

In this webinar, you will hear about how to make data smarter for geoscientists. This includes best practices in data management and an example of how Elsevier is working with a world leader in natural resource exploration and production to produce better data outcomes.

This webinar is intended for anyone in natural resource exploration & production who would like tips & solutions for managing internal and external data.

Need comprehensive peer reviewed literature for your upcoming paper but cannot access the institutional librarian virtually? Want some inspiration for your next research project but unsure where to look for curated content? Eager to learn more about your subject specialty amongst the global engineering research landscape? Or need to make strategic decisions to uplift and accelerate your projects? Join us to learn more about the tools that can support your engineering queries in lesser time, and how other institutions are effectively utilizing data analytics to optimize research.

Often times, analyzing the history and evolution of the Earth requires on-site exploration. But, sometimes, gaining access to a site is simply not feasible.

That’s why virtual field trips are the next best thing. With digital tools, geoscientists can still analyze their area of interest from their computer desks using maps, outcrop photos, cross-sections, and more. It’s just a matter of finding the right digital tools to help.

In this webinar, you will learn more about how to conduct a field trip virtually and how Geofacets can make your time more productive. Plus, you will see how to integrate maps and other information into Google Earth to conduct your virtual field trip and further analyze your area of interest.

Sandra Merten, Senior Product Manager of Geofacets, will demonstrate how to:
•Use digital tools to explore an area of interest virtually
•Find maps, outcrop photos, cross-sections, and associated article information quickly using Geofacets to get up to speed on the geological setting of a field trip area
•Use Google Earth to gain geospatial insights
•Download figures, tables and associated citation information from Geofacets to gain further insights on interesting field locations and manage source references

Geofacets is the largest, most comprehensive solution of its kind, and helps organizations optimize time, money, and talent. Geofacets is used by leading Oil & Gas Companies, Mining Companies and Academic Institutions to quickly uncover reliable, actionable geoscience information and data sourced from scientific publications. Visit www.elsevier.com/geofacets

This webinar will discuss how to use Elsevier’s Engineering tools to promote overall understanding of the existing literature and spaces where gaps exist, as well as improving knowledge of the underlying science required for valuable contribution in the lab.

This webinar will discuss how to use Elsevier’s Engineering tools to promote overall understanding of the existing literature and spaces where gaps exist, as well as improving knowledge of the underlying science required for valuable contribution in the lab.

Chemical companies face many risks when developing new products. But, none is more important than safety. Certain chemicals may pose risks to consumers, but when administered properly, they can still be viable for the market. Understanding the toxicology and regulations behind substances is critical for new products & formulations. But, often times, the information surrounding these is buried and unformatted.

In this webinar, expert toxicology consultant Claudia Cusan will unveil how she mitigates safety risks for her clients. Topics include:

•Challenges for toxicologists and safety professionals in the chemicals industry
•Case studies of how Claudia has overcome these challenges, with emphasis on plastics / safe handling for end consumers
•How Chemtiva, a new solution for the chemical industry, can help chemical companies with safety & toxicology assessments

Anyone in the chemical industry is welcome to attend this webinar, but it is best suited for toxicologists, safety professionals, product stewards, regulatory affairs and R&D product developers.

To learn more about Chemtiva, please visit www.elsevier.com/solutions/chemtiva

Our research indicates that geoscientists spend up to 80% of their time searching & formatting information to make interpretations and decisions. Critical geoscience information and data that informs those interpretations and decisions is often buried and unstructured.

Our research indicates that geoscientists spend up to 80% of their time searching & formatting information to make interpretations and decisions. Critical geoscience information and data that informs those interpretations and decisions is often buried and unstructured.

Today’s Geoscience professionals and researchers in Oil & Gas, Metals & Mining, and Academia are dealing with the effects of fast-changing geo-political economics, and of shifting demand and perception of energy. Quick, precise discovery of geoscientific information and data empowers the professional, and the organization, to confidently address these challenges.

Please join us to learn how Geofacets - a geoscience information solution - can empower you to make confident, informed decisions. Using the upgraded user-interface of Geofacets, we will explore questions such as:
- What is the most efficient way to uncover geoscience information and data?
- Is there a better way to perform analyses like building sub-surface models?
- How does a better information strategy impact the organization?

Polymer materials are widely produced and used across the Chemicals Industry value chain, including: elastomers, fibers, plastics, adhesives, additives, coatings, and more. Certain material selection and product development decisions can greatly advance or set back project progress. This webinar will highlight the necessity for quick access to insights that will mitigate risk and better inform these decisions via internal and external sources of information:

- Dr. Bicerano will walk through examples of challenges in polymer product development he experiences at his own polymer and composite consulting firm, and showcase how companies can leverage new digitization-related opportunities to drive operational changes and efficiencies and help reduce risks.

- Nina Kaun will be showcasing Elsevier's new beta solution, Chemtiva and demonstrate how it helps chemical industry professionals make decisions around supply chain, competition, applications, environmental, regulations, safety in this new digital paradigm across the polymer product development lifecycle.

Achuth Rao, VP of Product Management at Elsevier, will discuss information challenges in the Chemicals & Materials Industry, and share how chemists, engineers, toxicologist, and regulatory and safety professional are collaborating to increase productivity and decision making.

He will walk through information needs and use case examples specific to scientific and commercial companies, and demonstrate how Elsevier solution Chemtiva (in beta) leverages best in class data science techniques and technologies in this new digital industry paradigm.

Companies are looking for new digitization-related opportunities to drive operational changes and efficiencies and to help reduce risks around supply chain, competition, environmental, regulations, and safety across their product life cycle. Invaluable insights for risk mitigation and decision making can be gained from internal and external sources. The challenge lies in having this information in one place and offered in an actionable way to increase collaboration and productivity across the stage gate process in research, development & scale-up, and manufacturing.

Improving your research success, saving you time, and providing quality and relevant content are among Engineering Village’s goals.

Join us to learn how Engineering Village helped users like you discover top quality engineering research content faster in 2018. Plus, we’ll preview how 2019’s additions will further your research success.

Topics include:

• Engineering School Profile: De-mystify your school’s engineering research landscape and make better decisions about grant funding and overall research strategy
• More Standards, More Books, More Patents: New content from providers like ASTM, ASCE, WIPO, and more
• Preview of 2019: Be among the first to preview what Engineering Village has in store for 2019

The next edition of Elsevier’s Engineering Academic (EAC) Challenge featuring Knovel and Engineering Village starts September 10, 2018. Are your students ready to play? Join this webinar to learn more about game-based learning and see a sneak preview of the challenge.

This webinar is geared toward engineering faculty members and will focus on integrating Knovel and Engineering Village within engineering projects & assignments. Live demonstrations and practical tips on how to embed these trusted research platforms within engineering courses, projects, and assignments will be shared.

Academic institutions around the world use Knovel and Engineering Village to inspire and educate the next generation of engineers and produce scholarly research backed by validated resources. These tools, which contain journals, books, conference articles, dissertations and standards, are some of the most powerful tools in an engineer’s tool kit. By teaching good scholarly search practices, the EAC helps students prepare for careers in engineering and research..

This webinar series is presented by Elsevier as part of our ongoing support of advancements in engineering education. We invite all attendees to participate in the Engineering Academic Challenge, an immersive problem-set based competition for engineering students all over the world. https://eac.elsevier.com/

Universities are ideal hubs for students to build knowledge synthesis and create skillsets. But, many undergraduate engineering students don’t take full advantage of the powerful information and resources that are available to them through institutional subscriptions.

However, there are pedagogical strategies faculty can adopt to grow learners’ capabilities through knowledge synthesis, including leveraging tools like Knovel, Engineering Village, and Elsevier’s game-based learning experience called Engineering Academic Challenge.

This webinar will address:

• Examples of learning experiences where students have been asked to synthesize & apply information in new contexts and create new knowledge
• The contexts in which students to develop research skills
• Ways to leverage Knovel and Engineering Village to facilitate the learning journey and produce tangible research & education outcomes

This webinar series is presented by Elsevier as part of our ongoing support of advancements in engineering education. We invite all attendees to participate in the Engineering Academic Challenge, an immersive problem-set based competition for engineering students all over the world. https://eac.elsevier.com/

As technological change mediates virtually every realm of human life, the role of the engineer is expanding significantly and it is important that engineering educators are helping students prepare the new roles.

While the foundation of a strong engineering education remains unchanged, the research tools that engineering graduates will employ throughout their careers are rapidly becoming more powerful and networked. As the engineering profession changes, however, advances in engineering education have been slow to come, despite prominent calls for change from bodies such as The National Academy of Engineering, ABET, and the National Science Foundation in the US.

This webinar will address:

* Innovative experiments happening in engineering education today and how you can incorporate new methods in your curriculum
* Macrotrends impacting engineering education, practice, and the tools engineers use to discover insights from high technical fidelity information
* Top skills that prospective employers are expecting from the engineering graduates of 2020
* Ways to effectively incorporate databases such as Knovel and Engineering Village into a innovative engineering curriculum.

This webinar series is presented by Elsevier as part of our ongoing support of advancements in engineering education. We invite all attendees to participate in the Engineering Academic Challenge, an immersive problem-set based competition for engineering students all over the world. https://eac.elsevier.com/

In the face of inevitable regulatory changes, engineers must become savvy in their ability to respond to and anticipate change in order to limit product failures due to health, safety, environment and regulatory reasons.

Striving for EHS excellence and risk reduction requires difficult decisions and trade-offs that need to be backed in data and best practices.

In this webinar, we will look at how Knovel helped solve EHS and regulatory challenges for companies across industries. The learnings from these case studies can be applied to your own EHS issues.

Knovel helps companies tackle development and production challenges by providing foundational engineering knowledge, best practices, and interactive data to support EHS risk reduction.

When managing process safety and asset integrity issues, corrosion is a pervasive and complex problem. The serious risks are of global concern and cause material waste, plant shutdowns, and safety hazards.

However, corrosion can be prevented or managed in various ways: selecting the right materials, using inhibitors, design modifications, etc. The challenge is finding an engineering solution that has relevant and trustworthy answers & insights all in one place.